Preparing Literature Reviews: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

By M Ling Pan

Book Overview

- Illustrates all the steps in preparing qualitative and quantitative literature reviews. - Emphasizes topic selection, locating literature, and avoiding major pitfalls in evaluating and synthesizing literature. - Shows how to improve literature reviews through the judicious inclusion of statistical results found in the literature. - Provides easy-to-follow advice on how to avoid misrepresenting the results of published research in literature reviews. - The numerous examples throughout the text and the nine model literature reviews clarify the process of following the guidelines for writing solid, state-of-the-art literature reviews. - Shows students how to blend qualitative and quantitative approaches to preparing literature reviews without being overly mathematical.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936523116
• ISBN13: 9781936523115
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.5" x 8.3"